When Times Get Tough, Send People Lots of Pizza

When people give it their everything and push themselves to the limit to help others, the cure-all for their eventual exhaustion seems to be a circular piece of bread with cheese and sauce on top of it.

In a show of support for the work and dedication exemplified by members of the Boston Police Department, after spending nearly a week working details and hunting down the suspects involved in the Boston Marathon bombings, users on the community forum Redditsent pizzas to multiple department stations throughout the city as a way to say â€śthanks.â€ť

Your kind gesture of sending us pizza is greatly appreciated! None of us really use Reddit so hopefully this is posted in the right place. Thank you againâ€¦ everyone has been getting pizzaâ€¦.enough to go around.

According to the police officer that created the account, not an official Boston Police account, he â€śjust happened to be at the stationâ€ť when the pizzas arrived. â€śI am an Officer assigned there along with another Officer created this account simply to say thanks,â€ť he wrote along with the note.

Boston Police Spokesman Officer James Kenneally says the amount of “thanks” and gratitude the police have received in the form of food has been satisfying and inspiring. â€śPeople were dropping off cake cookies and food, its been pretty overwhelming and impressively generous. A lot of [the pizza deliveries] took place down around the Boylston Street area and the finish line. The point to be made thoughâ€”what may seem like small gestures are hugely appreciated,â€ť says Kenneally.

The Boston Police have 12 stations throughout the city, and each one received an outpouring of gratitude in the form of cookies, cake, and other foods, he says.

But the Boston police werenâ€™t the only ones to get a pat on the back in the form of pizza. On Monday, the Globe received a large supply of pizza for their newsroom from the Chicago Tribune, who said the food was recognition for their coverage during the week-long bombing investigation.Â â€śWe can only imagine what an exhausting and heartbreaking week itâ€™s beenÂ for you and your city … we canâ€™t buy you lost sleep, so at least let us pick up lunch,â€ť the letter from the Tribune said.